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Chaotic Scenes in South Africa with #BlackFriday Toilet Roll Tussle and More

South Africans have embraced the Black Friday tradition with the same enthusiasm as they’ve grabbed many other American traditions… queuing for hours since before dawn, fighting, laughing, grabbing bargains and tussling over toilet rolls!   Below are scenes from around the country where a riot apparently broke out over toilet rolls in a Roodepoort supermarket, while […]

25-11-16 23:26

South Africans have embraced the Black Friday tradition with the same enthusiasm as they’ve grabbed many other American traditions… queuing for hours since before dawn, fighting, laughing, grabbing bargains and tussling over toilet rolls!  

Below are scenes from around the country where a riot apparently broke out over toilet rolls in a Roodepoort supermarket, while multiple injuries were reported at a shopping centre stampede in Durban…

WATCH Bargain hunters make a run for it at the #BlackFriday sale at Checkers, Greenacres in Port Elizabeth and around the country…

https://youtu.be/Y-QGetq6axA

Black Friday, so named because it’s the day that many shops go from being in the Red to being in the Black, started in the States in the ’30s as a way for stores to get rid of their old stock to make way for the Christmas stock.